Concur.

But if their Human Factors engineers would quit designing radios so
complex that one needs a Ph.D. to operate them, we wouldn't need synths
except for freq read-out.  But that won't happen until hams become
disenchanted with bells and whistles and boycott the manufacturers.
Protests of newbies to the contrary notwithstanding, it was a *lot* easier
to operate rigs of thirty years ago and more!

Mike Freeman <[log in to unmask]>
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On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Andy Baracco wrote:

> One must remember that voice syns were not developed by the mainstream radio
> manufacturers for the blind.  They were developed for those who used rigs as
> mobils.  I don't think you would get anywhere prevailing on them to do it so
> that blind folks could use their rigs.  The first thing they would ask would
> be, "How many of such rigs would we sell".
>
> Andy
>